South Serbia Magazine's Office Robbed
A day after the world marked Press Freedom Day, the premises of the Serbian weekly Vranjske Novine were broken into and equipment stolen.
The newsroom of the weekly magazine Vranjske novine, in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, lost seven laptop computers and one professional camera in a robbery on Wednesday night.
"This is the fourth time in ten years that someone has broken into our premises," Nikola Lazic, the weekly's editor-in-chief, told Balkan Insight.
Investigations into those cases are still ongoing and have not yielded any results.
"We do not want to prejudice the potential motives but it seems like some do not agree with our work," Lazic said, adding that their newsroom was broken into when they wrote about Serbian Orthodox Bishop Pahomije, who was on trial for sexual abuse charges.
According to Lazic, the office will publish the next edition of the weekly despite the loss of equipment.
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